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To: BackInBlack

Have they filibustered anything yet?


224 posted on 08/09/2006 10:16:24 AM PDT by notigar
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To: notigar

Yes. They filibustered judges before, they just filibustered estate tax repeal the other day...but even more than that the threat of a filibuster often keeps things from even coming to the floor for a vote. Also, compromises have often had to be made to prevent filibusters, and those would be unnecessary with a bigger majority.


227 posted on 08/10/2006 11:37:51 AM PDT by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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